Sean Dooley

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    Sean Dooley | The Nation Reviewed | April 2008
    On Anzac Day in 1949, 15-year-old Len Robinson went to pay homage to a little Aussie battler. After making the considerable trip from his home outside Melbourne to the CBD, he walked a mile through the mixture of wasteland and remnant salt marsh known as Fishermans Bend. There, within sight of the...
  • With an author name straight out of Mad magazine an almost Pythonesque subtitle, this paean to pigeons may at first seem the stuff of some elaborate joke: as if somebody could seriously devote over 200 pages to those ‘rats with wings'! But this is no dry treatise for the spotty anorak-wearer....